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I've actually wanted to do a documentary on dollar stores, and their proliferation as wages became more stagnant or fell. This idea came to me maybe 8 or 10 years ago. The punch li…

I still don't understand why G+ never caught on. For me FB is wayyyy too busy with panes and club, and groups, and businesses, and news, and election interference, and the bird sit…

Watch the Anvil doc for a sorta-of real-life Spinal Tap type story.

The Cove was a tough watch, but necessary.

Jesus Camp is another one if you want to be frightened by cultists and religion.

Grizzly Man was a tough watch for me. Treadwell clearly had massive self-esteem and likely mental health issues, which were on display in this film.

Wow. I'm a bog Doc fan. I'll list a few of my favs: Touch the Sound. For me this was life changing. The story of a deaf percussionist. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424509/ Man on …

There are jobs where I would absolutely never disclose being on the spectrum. Typical corporate 9-5 stuff. But my current gig is as a technical director at an art museum, and my as…

This is fascinating to me. What a nice hack. I always enjoy it when people find clever ways to undermine existing systems. I'll be installing this font shortly!

I'm certain a lot of my memories are fake. My dad was a big slideshow guy when I was very little. He used to take a lot of photos and never made prints, he always got slides, so he…

If you like stuff like this, follow curiousmarc on youtube. He volunteers there and helps with restorations, and does all kinds of cool restorations at home, too.

This is not just about tough working conditions. It's about the way management treats employees, and encourages employees to crap on other employees for small gains. Google "I was …

I live a few miles from a Walmart distribution warehouse, and had a good friend who worked there. It really started to affect his health. The working conditions are horrible, and t…

I use and love linux, and have read many things about Linus being abusive and what not. I am on the spectrum and wasn't diagnosed til my 40s. Looking back on my earlier adult years…

Wow. Seems like weather would have wreaked havoc with that, but I guess it worked. This would have been a hacker's paradise. Easy access to the phone system that Captain Crunch and…

I never fit into "normal" learning styles at all levels of school. I either grasped the subject intuitively and didn't need to be taught, or I didn't get it at all, and had to teac…

People certainly seem to be unhappy on incredibly large scales these days. I read an interesting piece in what I think was the Atlantic 6-ish months ago, and it basically boiled do…

I've been following curiousmarc's channel for a couple years. I love his videos. This teletype restoration is amazing. The most recent video on his channel is of him and the guys g…

If my friend wanted to start producing content again, I'd do it in a second. Getting together for a few hours a week to create a ~45 minute podcast was tons of fun, and the convers…

I don't find this surprising. When I started podcasting in 2005, even doing a weekly 'cast with my friend and co-host was a lot of work. We also had day jobs. But the pressure to c…

Well DUH. Two words: TOP GUN.

It was definitely fun to go to the computer lab in high school and play with/program the Commodore PETs. These were the 4K models with the chicklet keyboard. I will say this though…